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SIXTH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES IEEE COASTAL LOS ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY CYBER SECURITY SUMMIT 2025-SOUTH BAY
2025-10-25 09:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/497356
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CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH
Cybersecurity Starts with You: Protect, Prevent, Prevail
Since 2004, the President of the United States and Congress have declared October to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cyber-attacks on corporations, governmental agencies and individuals are becoming increasingly widespread and regular, as well as more complex. The Virtual Sixth Annual Los Angeles IEEE Coastal Los Angeles Computer Society Cybersecurity Summit-South Bay that brings together government officials, private business executives and cybersecurity experts to discuss the current and emerging threats that exist in today’s sophisticated cyber environment, and the technological advancements being made to countermeasure and manage these risks.
(https://www.computer.org/) (https://www.csudh.edu/) (https://www.waseda.jp/top/)(https://www.nubroad.com/)(https://www.isi.edu/) (https://www.ucla.edu/)
(https://www.stmarytx.edu/) (https://www.scu.edu/) (https://www.linkedin.com/company/immuniweb/) (https://aileap.tech/)https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee-computer-society-in-san-antonio?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_messaging_conversation_detail%3B9%2FFvMWdzSWKmSnQdGt1wfQ%3D%3D
Resources for Cyber Security Awareness:
Think Before You Click: Your Digital Life Depends on It
(https://www.dhs.gov/topic/cybersecurity)
(https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips)
(https://staysafeonline.org/)
(https://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month)
– (http://www.afcea.org/site/sites/default/files/files/AFC_WhitePaper2015_R3_SPREADS_lowres.pdf)
Co-sponsored by: Dr. Mehrdad Sharbaf
Agenda:
Please Join us virtually for The Sixth Annual Los Angeles IEEE CLAS Computer Society Cybersecurity Summit-South Bay
Secure Together: Building a Safer Digital World
Welcome Keynote Message Time: 9:00 am
Dr. Mehrdad S. Sharbaf, IEEE Coastal Los Angeles Computer Society- Chair, Founder & CEO, Sharbaf and Associates LLC/Adjunct Professor CSUDH
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehrdad-s-sharbaf-30a23214/)
Welcome Keynote Remark Message
Distinguished Guest Speaker Professor, Head of Department, Associate Dean, Waseda University, and IEEE Computer Society Elected President 2025, Hironori Washizaki, Time 9:15 am
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/hironori-washizaki-aa085184/)
Distinguished Guest Speaker Dr. Chris Mattman, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer, UCLA, Time 9:30 am
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismattmann/)
Distinguished Guest Speaker Dipti Srivastava, VP/Director Engineering, Nubroad LLC, Time 10:00 am
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/diptishrivastav/)
Distinguished Guest Speaker Terry Benzel, Managing Director, USC Information Sciences Institute, Former Director, Networking and Cybersecurity Division at USC Information Sciences Institute, IEEE Fellow, Time 10:30 am
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-benzel-74818/)
Distinguished Guest Speaker Malek Ben Salem, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, AILeap, Time 11:00 am
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/malek-ben-salem/)
Distinguished Guest Speaker Dr. Cyril Onwubiko, Business Information Security Officer at Barclays | Board Member, IEEE Computer Society Time 11:30am
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrilonwubiko/)
Distinguished Guest Speaker Ilia Kolochenko, PhD., CEO at ImmuniWeb | Attorney-at-Law | Adjunct Professor of Cyber Law & Cybersecurity, Time 12:00pm
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/kolochenko/)
Adjourn at 12:30pm
Please Join IEEE Computer Society
Build your technical skills, discover new opportunities, and connect to a global community of technologists.
(https://www.computer.org/membership)
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/497356

Introduction to Latest Concepts in mmWave Automotive Radar Signal Processing
2025-10-29 18:30 - 20:00 | South Bay (TBD), California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/506686
In-person networking starts at 6:30PM
Talk: 7:00 PM to 8:00PM
Abstract: In this talk, audience will be introduced to the fundamentals and the latest technology concepts of automotive millimeter wave 4D imaging radar which has become an essential part of the autonomous vehicles. An overview of key signal processing challenges, such as MIMO waveform processing and sparse array angle estimation, among others, will also be discussed.
Speaker(s): Ryan Wu,
South Bay (TBD), California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/506686

Energy & Climate Research for a Better Environmental Future
2025-10-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/510539
“Energy & Climate Research for a Better Environmental Future”
With Dr. Evelyn Wang, Vice President of Energy and Climate at MIT
Former Director of ARPA-E
Sponsored by (https://www.mitcnc.org/events/134583)
cohosted by (https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/), (https://r6.ieee.org/scv-lm/)
See our chapter event page for a detailed description and promotion code for IEEE discount:
Chapter Page: https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/event/energy-climate-research-for-a-better-environmental-future/
Or go directly to the MITCNC page without the IEEE discount:
Reservation URL: https://www.mitcnc.org/events/134583
Co-sponsored by: MIT Club of Northern California
Speaker(s): Dr. Evelyn Wang, Ray Rothrock
Agenda:
Date: 30 October 2025
Time: 5:30 to 7:00 PM PST
Cost: No cost for first 10 IEEE members who register
RSVP: [](https://www.mitcnc.org/events/134583)
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/510539

High Performance Inferencing for LLMs
2025-11-01 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/508671
Inferencing has become ubiquitous across cloud, regional, edge, and device environments, powering a wide spectrum of AI use cases spanning vision, language, and traditional machine learning applications. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs), initially developed for natural language tasks, have expanded to multimodal applications including vision speech, reasoning and planning each demanding distinct service-level objectives (SLOs). Achieving high-performance inferencing for such diverse workloads requires both model-level and system-level optimizations.
This talk focuses on system-level optimization techniques that maximize token throughput and minimize cost per token, maintaining achieve meeting user experience metrics and inference service-provider efficiency. We review several recent innovations including KV caching, Paged/Flash/Radix Attention, Speculative Decoding, and KV Routing, and explain how these mechanisms enhance performance by reducing latency, memory footprint, and compute overhead. These techniques are implemented in leading open-source inference frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, Hugging Face TGI, and NVIDIA NIM, which form the backbone of large-scale public and private LLM serving platforms.
The use of GPU Training, Inference and Analysis clusters with Multi-Instance-GPU's (MIG), and Federated Models with QML applications is now become practical.
Attendees will gain a practical understanding of the challenges in delivering scalable, low-latency LLM inference, and of the architectural and algorithmic innovations driving next-generation high-performance inference systems.
Co-sponsored by: eMerging Open Tech Foundation
Speaker(s): Ravishankar,
Agenda:
– Introduction to INGR with AIML & QIT working groups (Baw Chng + Prakash Ramchandran) – 10 mts
– High Performance Inferencing for LLMs – By Dr. Ravishankar Ravindran ( Tech. Director eOTF – Advisory) -60 mts
– Q&A – 20 mts
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/508671

2025 Silicon Valley Area Workshop on EMC Design of High-Speed Systems (PAID) + FREE Exhibits + FREE TC10 on Signal and Power Integrity mtg
2025-11-04 08:30 - 15:30 | Bldg: 5, 2655 Seely Ave., San Jose, California, United States, 95134
IEEE EMC Chapter is sponsoring the event but no monetary gain is gained or funded by the chapter.
Location: Cadence Design Systems, Bldg 5, 2655 Seely Ave., San Jose, CA
Registration link will bring you to the options of the Paid workshop but also to the Free Exhibit/TC events
2025 Silicon Valley Area Workshop on EMC Design of High-Speed Systems workshop with Free Exhibit and Free IEEE EMC Technical Committee 10 on Signal and Power Integrity meeting. For more details on the specific agenda including abstract and speakers' bio, go to https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oHHiBJtyebP1JgqafZF65pR9A0y145uA/view?usp=sharing
Agenda:
Agenda
Table-top Vendor Exhibit in Lobby from 10:20 AM – 2:25 PM
Vendors are still signing up and already include Rohde and Schwarz, PCB Automation, Nexperia, Cadence Design Systems, PacketMicro, and Clear Signal Solutions
8:30 AM Light breakfast and registration
9:00 AM Welcome remarks and introductions Electromagnetic Compatibility
9:10 AM EMC Applications of 3D Printable Materials
Dr. Victor Khilkevich, Missouri Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
9:45 AM Model-based EMC Analysis and Diagnosis towards Design-for-EMC
Dr. Dipanjan Gope, SimYog Technology and Indian Institute of Science
10:20 AM Break and vendor table-top show
10:45 AM Modeling ESD Protection for High-Speed Applications
Dr. Daryl Beetner, Missouri Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
11:20 AM Round Table Discussion – Future directions and challenges in EMC
11:50 AM Lunch
12:50 PM Challenges and Opportunity for Data Center Generation and Distributions
Dr. Zhiping Yang, PCB Automation
1:25 PM Machine Learning-Assisted Power Delivery Network Design
Dr. Chulsoon Hwang, Missouri Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
2:00 PM Break and vendor table-top show
2:25 PM Challenges with next generation interconnect solutions
Stephen Scearce, Amphenol
3:00 PM Round Table Discussion – Future directions and challenges in SIPI for High-
Speed Systems
3:30 PM Happy Hour sponsored by Cadence Design Systems
IEEE EMC Mini Seminar-Paper Series Sponsored by IEEE EMC Society Technical
Committee 10 on Signal and Power Integrity
Speakers and papers to be announced. Session will include re-presentation of some
of the best SI/PI papers from recent conferences.
4:00 PM End of program
Bldg: 5, 2655 Seely Ave., San Jose, California, United States, 95134

Prescriptive Maintenance in Semiconductor Manufacturing: A Shift from Reactive to Intelligent Systems
2025-11-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Room: SCDI 4010, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/506966
Abstract:
Semiconductor Tool maintenance is a complex task due to process complexity, process integration challenges, and customer requirements. Historically, maintenance strategies have been reactive due to these complexities. Applied Materials has been focused on moving from a generally reactive method of reacting to tool issues to prescriptive methods of maintaining process equipment. This migration is through a combination of advanced anomaly detection techniques which provide low false positives, methods of translating fail modes into Reactive Useful Life estimates and ultimately prescribing solutions to issues in advance using Generative Artificial Intelligence. This discussion will cover some of the challenges and solutions to this framework.
Speaker(s): Mike,
Agenda:
6:00 – 6:30 – Networking and light dinner (for in person attendees)
6:30 – 7:30 – Talk and Q & A
7:30 – 8:00 – Wrap up and Networking
Room: SCDI 4010, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/506966

IEEE x Leonis Capital AI Safety Mixer
2025-11-06 17:30 - 20:00 | Room: Suite 500, 300 Grant Ave , San Francisco, California, United States, 94108
Join us for an evening of AI safety talks and conversations, and get to know researchers and practitioners working on some of the most important safety challenges of our time! The(https://www.linkedin.com/company/sfcomputersociety/) and (https://www.leoniscap.com/) are throwing a mixer at the Hanwha AI Center in downtown SF.
​Whether you're deep in safety research, building enterprise safeguards, or thinking about safety-related startups ideas, come hang out. We'll have drinks and bites while you chat with researchers, founders, and others who spend their days figuring out how to make advanced AI systems actually safe and beneficial.
Our co-host ​(https://www.leoniscap.com/) is a research-driven VC fund based in Silicon Valley. We invest in Seed and Pre-Seed stage companies building AI-native products.
Planned Agenda
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​5:30 Open Doors + Networking
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​6:00 Talk 1: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/billstout/) (Technical Director AI Product Safety, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow/)) – A layered Enterprise Architecture approach to AI Red Teaming and ownership
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​6:20 Talk 2: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bbartoldson/) (Researcher, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory/)) – AI Safety at Scale
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​6:40 Talk 3: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fadyyanni/) (Co-Founder, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackapromptle/)) – Prompt injection risk landscape
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​7:00 Panel: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinharanjan/) (Fellow & CTO, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm/), Enterprise AI and Data) – Operationalizing AI Safety
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​7:30 Networking + Mixer
See talk details on (https://luma.com/ksfp5s1t)
Speaker(s): Bill Stout, Brian Bartoldson, Fady Yanni
Room: Suite 500, 300 Grant Ave , San Francisco, California, United States, 94108

A Case Study on How to Use AI in Engineering Management
2025-11-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Room: 1302, Bldg: SCDI, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/512221
We will watch this 40-minute video, which describes how AI is revolutionizing engineering management and people development at one company. The talk explores the practical applications of AI for enhancing leadership capabilities, from conducting data-driven one-on-ones to delivering impactful feedback and effective performance reviews. It shows how AI can help identify performance patterns, prepare for difficult conversations, and generate meaningful insights for team development. Real-world examples and hands-on strategies are presented to illustrate the concepts. The presentation explores how combining AI with structured documentation methods can transform our management approaches.
The (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D4pESKKiv8) is entitled: “Devoxx Greece 2025 – Engineering Management in the AI Era” by Dennis Nerush who is Director of AI Engineering at Elementor, with over 15 years of experience in development, management, and engineering leadership.
After watching the video, we will discuss how we think and feel about its contents. Join us to share your thoughts on how to use AI in engineering management. The goal is for us to walk away with actionable techniques to leverage AI in developing stronger engineering teams while maintaining authentic human connections.
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Parking info:
(1) There are some 2-hour and some 4-hour parking spaces on Benton / Sherman and Franklin streets.
(2) There are a number of 2-hour parking spaces next to Bank of America / Starbucks and they are usually not crowded on weeknights. You have to walk across El-Camino traffic light pedestrian crossing. If you get there at 6:20 PM you can park until 8:20PM.
(3) Enter at the door of the Sobrato building colored in YELLOW.
Room: 1302, Bldg: SCDI, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/512221

From Mg to Be: Rethinking P-Type Doping Strategies in Wide-Bandgap III-Nitrides
2025-11-07 11:45 - 13:15 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/502836
Achieving efficient p-type doping in gallium nitride (GaN) and its alloys remains one of the most critical challenges in realizing the full potential of III-nitride semiconductors for high-power electronics, deep-ultraviolet (DUV) optoelectronics, and quantum information technologies. While magnesium is the conventional acceptor dopant, its high ionization energy (≈0.22 eV in GaN and up to 0.6 eV in AlN) limits hole concentrations to below ~1% activation efficiency, constraining device performance.
Our recent work explores beryllium as an alternative acceptor in (Al,Ga)N, leveraging metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to achieve high-quality, low-defect epitaxial growth. Through extensive photoluminescence and time-resolved spectroscopy studies of over fifty MOCVD grown Be-doped GaN samples, we identified the UVLBe ​ band at ~3.38 eV as a signature of a shallow Be-related acceptor with an ionization energy of ~113–114 meV — significantly shallower than Mg in GaN. Complementary theoretical studies support the assignment of this shallow state to the BeGa​ONBeGa​ complex, suggesting a pathway toward achieving p-type conductivity in AlGaN and even AlN alloys.
In recent limited MOCVD growth studies on co-doping with oxygen and Be, we have observed preliminary indications that oxygen incorporation can enhance the signature of the shallow Be acceptor, though further work is needed to fully establish the efficacy and stability of this co-doping strategy.
These results provide new insight into the nature of Be-related defects in GaN and AlGaN, and they highlight co-doping pathways as a promising route to overcome the long-standing bottleneck of achieving high hole concentrations.
When: Friday, November 7th, 2025 – 11:45AM to 1PM (PDT)
11:45AM – 12PM: Intro
12PM-12:45PM: Lecture
12:45PM-12:55PM: Q&A
1PM Adjourn
Bio:
Dr. F. Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik is a Professor of Engineering at the State University of New York, where she leads research on wide bandgap III-nitride semiconductor materials and devices for applications in lighting, power electronics, sensing, and quantum information science. Her work spans two decades of innovation and pioneering work in (Al,In) GaN materials and device engineering, with contributions ranging from high-efficiency p-type doping techniques and defect engineering and characterization to novel photocathodes and betavoltaic devices. She has authored nearly 200 publications and delivered invited talks worldwide on growth, characterization, device physics with applications in emitters, power electronics, and detectors.
Shahedipour-Sandvik lab has been continuously funded by a variety of sources including NSF, ARL/ARO, DARPA, DOE, ARPA-E, NASA, and by industry.
She has advised more than a dozen Ph.D. students, many of whom now hold technical leadership positions in national labs, and industry.
She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Electronic Materials (2015–2024) and has been recognized with the SUNY Excellence in Research Award and the IBM Faculty Award, among other honors.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/502836

Accelerating Startups to Put Enterprise GenAI Multi-Agent Systems in Production
2025-11-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA., Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA, United States
EVENT LOGISTICS
The event is hybrid. The audience can attend in Mountain View, CA or join on Zoom or YouTube
Valley Research Park (VRP)
319 North Bernardo Ave
Mountain View, CA 94043
From the locked front door, go to the right side of the building. The 2nd door will be open.
Agenda
(one hour earlier this time, for audience in other time zones)
5:30 people start to arrive, enjoy pizza and networking. Test your connection and chat.
6:00 SFBayACM introduces upcoming events and the speaker
6:00 speaker presentation starts
7:15 – 7:30 finish, depending on Q&A
TALK DESCRIPTION
– PROBLEM –
Key Challenges We Will Address for Different Audience Segments
1. Startups with Funding, or Looking for Execution Partners
You have a strong vertical application and early investment but now you need to grow quickly while focusing on your core value proposition. You may already have a prototype built from initial experimentation but face the challenge of evolving it into a secure, multi-tenant, enterprise grade GenAI platform that is compliant, transparent, explainable, and aligned with human values.
2. Mid Cap and Large Enterprises
Your teams have built GenAI prototypes yet struggle to solve real problems or get applications into production consistently. You want to identify and overcome the technical, operational, and organizational barriers that keep innovation from scaling.
3. Investors, VC’s and Venture Partners
You are assessing how to reduce costs and risks in your portfolio companies’ GenAI strategies. Understanding why 95 percent of projects fail, as reported in MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025, can help you guide founders toward sustainable and successful models.
4. Product and Engineering Leaders
You have ideas, and aim to design applications that surprise and delight customers by building intelligence that anticipates user intent, with a Do What I Mean (DWIM) design principle that separates great products from the rest.
5. Regulated Industry Executives
In sectors such as financial services, healthcare, or government, you must ensure AI systems are reliable, explainable, auditable, and fully compliant with evolving laws and governance standards while maintaining speed and innovation. You may also want to monitor your systems, to comply with various company or security policies.
Who Should Attend:
Startup founders, investors, product leaders, and enterprise innovators who want to understand what it really takes to design, build and scale GenAI systems that work in the real world.
– SOLUTION –-
This talk will answer problems listed above and more. The speaker will first dive into the MIT report, to better interpret the context of the survey. Lessons learned on how to help GenAI deployments succeed will be discussed.
Studies that review knowledge worker productivity gains will be reviewed.
The speaker will discuss an architecture for a flexible software accelerator framework that can meet the needs for successful GenAI deployments. The framework can be configured to support different applications to meet specific requirements, combining best-practice software components and design principles.
Given an accelerator software architecture with these layers:
Ccube’s Lumin Lab Accelerator software

IntelliConnect (to connect you to the intelligence of the text and data in your company) This lets users ask questions of your corporate knowledge, for example.
Guardiance (To provide text classifications to guard your company, support compliance and AI alignment)

Tools and software:

Microservices architecture
MCP integrations
Many file types and data sources (i.e. local, Google drive, Gmail, MongoDB)
Enterprise applications (i.e. SalesForce, Service Now)
GenAI personalization
workflow support (n8n, UiPath)

GenAI Tools:

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Vector Databases, such as Weaviate or Pinecone
Use [Guardrails.ai](http://guardrails.ai) as a foundation for text classification. We built on top conditions, +/- examples per condition, Boolean combination of conditions into rules. Support many rule actions and rule testing.
Multi-Agent with: LangGraph, LangSmith
Make explicit the dialogue or work product (medium-term memory) that is passed between many agents and users. This work product is persisted over the employees development of a given task.
Logging channels: system level (tokens, LLM calls, costs, latency), user-agent level chat, agent & LLM thought traces. Scheming detection rules can monitor the thought traces.
Meaning Markers (auto tagging text with a hierarchy of tags using Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Design of Experiments (DoE) to optimize cost and accuracy by varying: prompts, tools, LLMs, embedding models and other architecture choices as they vary over different client requirements and data.

With the above accelerator software components, support a variety of vertical applications, based on the data loaded and configurations.
– RESULT –
The speaker will show a series of demos relating to financial services and healthcare, as examples of what can be done with such a framework.

Customer Support application covering portable computers and cell phones, using both internal trouble ticked data in SalesForce or ServiceNow, product manuals in PDF or web form and brand related support web sites.
A medical related demo, applying about ⅓ of the 150 or so rules needed to cover all of the HIPAA laws around confidential medical information.
A finance demo around investment advisors, insider trading or information leaking
The design of an upcoming larger demo, supporting questions over 3 years of S&P500 company data (annual reports, proxy reports, websites).

SPEAKER BIO
Greg Makowski, https://www.linkedin.com/in/GregMakowski has been training and deploying AI since 1992, has been growing Data Science Teams since 2010, has exited 4 startups and has 6 AI patents granted or in various stages. He is currently the Chief of Data Science at Ccube, leading GenAI/AI consulting and framework development for enterprise applications. See also: https://www.ccube.com/genai.
SPONSOR INFORMATION
From vision to execution, Ccube partners with forward-thinking clients to co-build Apps, Data, and GenAI solutions across industries. Ccube has 10+ service lines, 30+ happy clients, 90% client retention, and saved clients ~50% costs on average.
Ccube has Silicon Valley roots, deep expertise, customer first approach and leverages lean teams for onsite in US and offshore delivery teams in India.
Watch for us also on
https://www.ccube.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ccube-inc/
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
As a way to “thank your sponsor”, Ccube invites you to share your contact info, and take a brief survey. A summary of the survey results will be shared at the event.
#ACM
#SFbayACM
#GenAI
#GenAIApplications
#EnterpriseApplications
#EnterpriseAIApplications
#EnterpriseGenAIApplications
#RAG
#RetrievalAugmentedGeneration
#Guardrails
#AIsafety
#GenAIcompliance
#Ccube
#LuminAILabs
#IntelliConnect
#Guardiance
Registration/tickets:
https://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-acm/events/311368675/

Product Safety and Compliance Meetup
2025-11-11 19:00 - 19:45 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/507461
The Product Safety Engineering Society Bay Area Joint Section Chapter (SCV/SF/OEB) invites you to a virtual meetup of professionals interested in product safety and compliance. We will discuss the future of the chapter and plan future events.
Agenda:
– Business Meeting
– Plan future activity of the chapter
– New Officer Elections
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/507461

Bell Labs’ Critical BELLMAC-32 Microprocessor Legacy
2025-11-11 19:00 - 21:00 | 925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/507828
This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either.
>> DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR IN-PERSON MEETING THIS MONTH!
This presentation will discuss the pioneering microprocessor R&D efforts at Bell Labs in 1976-1982 which created a new chip architecture and physical design. New test and verification methods were needed to overcome challenges in CMOS fabrication, and many of this project’s inventions were forerunners of subsequent VLSI developments:
– high-speed domino circuits to reduce complex logic gate delay times,
– a twin-tub CMOS process for improved power efficiency and performance,
– interconnect-centric logic design for signal delay reduction,
– gate-matrix layout which increased density,
– 32-bit wide internal and external transfers, and
– instructions which implemented certain UNIX operating system and C programming language operations
As explained by Michael Condry in an (https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone), this device was designed with the intention of carrying both voice and computation into the future, and CMOS was seen as a promising—but risky—alternative to the NMOS and PMOS designs then in use.
During this talk, three of the project leaders will describe how their team overcame numerous obstacles, and how they exceeded their speed goal with a 6.4 MHz device in 2.5 micrometer CMOS technology. These efforts created the BELLMAC-32 series of microprocessors, whose applications included telephony products. Their work was recognized this year with an (https://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Development_of_the_Bellmac_Microprocessor,_1980).
Speaker(s): Michael Condry, Sung (Steve) Mo Kang , Victor Huang
925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/507828

AMA (Ask me Anything) with Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Alice Smith
2025-11-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/498694
Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the event.):
https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/qGy644m7StmKMra3Xs_x2g
Synopsis:
Please feel free to check out the work and thoughts of Prof. Alice Smith, Ph.D., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_E._Smith, https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~aesmith/ on Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3WhioLIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22alice+smith%22+auburn and generally on the Internet.
Then, please feel free to submit your questions
– via Twitter by using the hashtag, #ProfSmithAMA and tagging @vishnupendyala
– emailing vspendyala(at)hotmail(dot)com with #ProfSmithAMA in the subject
– during your registration on Zoom
Selected questions will be answered by Prof. Smith during the session. Audience may be able to ask follow-up questions during the session, using the Chat feature.
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By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing.
Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU
Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, Prof. Alice Smith
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/498694

Tech Talks: Overlap Between Classical Statistics and Modern AI & AI in Human Resources
2025-11-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/512749
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Computer Society invites to our free and open Virtual Tech Talks (no IEEE membership required):
First Speaker: Swetha Manohar RM ((https://www.linkedin.com/in/-swethavbenchsales))
Title: Artificial Intelligence HR: Candidature for Foreign Job Recruitment and India Recruitment
Abstract: In international job markets, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming HR recruitment. Language translation, automated resume screening, cultural fit evaluation, and international talent acquisition are all made possible by AI-powered solutions. AI broadens the talent pool, offers individualized assistance, and forecasts talent requirements using predictive analytics. The advantages include cost savings, better hiring decisions, enhanced candidate experience, and higher efficiency. Integration with current HR systems, bias prevention, and data quality are among the difficulties. Businesses may improve the efficacy, efficiency, and candidate experience of recruitment by utilizing AI. AI-powered HR tools, including standalone programs and comprehensive platforms, streamline HR functions like hiring, payroll, performance reviews, and employee engagement, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and allowing HR professionals to focus on strategic initiatives.
Bio: I am a dedicated and results-driven professional with over 16 years of experience in end-to-end Technical Recruitment, Bench Sales, Consultant and Vendor Management, and Training & Development. I have provided services to top U.S. IT companies, helping them acquire the best resources for their job requirements. My expertise lies in handling all types of technical requirements, identifying top consultants, and successfully placing our H1B candidates in leading IT firms across the U.S. Skilled in technologies such as Java, .NET, Oracle, and Clinical SAS, I take pride in building strong vendor relations and driving organizational growth.
Second Speaker: Sri Budaraju ((http://linkedin.com/in/ambareesh-b-323b98270))
Title: Can Simple Regression Compete with Artificial Intelligence? Exploring the Overlap Between Classical Statistics and Modern AI
Abstract: This talk explores the comparison of classical regression models, often taught in an introductory statistics course, compared with the modern AI and machine learning models in predicting real-world outcomes. Using real datasets from reputed sources like Kaggle, this research dives into comparing the accuracy of simple linear and logistic regression methods to the more complex AI systems. This highlights the surprising power of simple statistical techniques and situations in which they are more applicable compared to bigger models for their interpretability and how they play a vital role in the realm of Artificial Intelligence.
Bio: Sri Budaraju (Ambareesh) is an honors student at Las Positas where he is an avid researcher in fields of mathematics & computer science. Sri is experienced in the realm of research as he previously was researching micropropagation and organogenesis in the field of Biotechnology. Sri has been invited and presented his research works at various conferences such as Mission College Symposium & Expo and other ASDRP associated online conferences as well.
Speaker(s): Sri Budaraju, Swetha Manohar
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/512749

Rethinking Chip Design to deliver Faster, Smarter, More Compact Solutions
2025-11-13 11:30 - 13:15 | Bldg: ==> Use corner entrance: Kifer Road / San Lucar Court ==> Do not enter at main entrance on Kifer Road, EAG Labs, 810 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California, California, United States, 95051
Rethinking Chip Design to deliver Faster, Smarter, More Compact Solutions
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Abstract:
CDimension is rethinking chip design from the ground up, delivering solutions that are faster, smarter, and more compact.
We’re moving beyond the limitations of traditional technology.
Our foundational innovations in advanced materials and semiconductor integration unlock unprecedented gains in performance, efficiency, and scalability – ranging from 10x to 1,000x times greater than current approaches.
Our first milestone: the commercial release of ultra-thin 2D semiconductor materials — a foundational step toward our vision of vertically integrated systems that unify compute, memory, and power.
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Speaker:
Dr. Jiadi Zhu
CEO
CDimension
Jiadi Zhu is the CEO and founder of CDimension, a company rethinking chip design to deliver faster, smarter, more compact solutions for the most demanding and complex computing workloads. His vision is to redefine how chips are designed, not just for higher performance, but for fundamentally better structure and efficiency.
Jiadi’s technical foundation spans over a decade of work at the frontier of 2D materials, monolithic 3D integration, and device scaling. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been recognized across both academia and industry for his originality in device design, novel semiconductor materials, and integration.
His research–from MIT to the lab bench of CDimension–has focused on how to break architectural bottlenecks through physics-aware, layout-driven design. Jiadi’s research has been widely cited in the field and published and presented in top-tier journals and conferences, including Nature Nanotechnology and IEEE’s International Electron Devices Meeting.
Jiadi’s transition from research into startup leadership has drawn attention from leaders in semiconductors, high-performance computing, and next-generation AI hardware. Today, under Jiadi’s leadership, CDimension is overcoming the limitations of traditional chip architectures and delivering significantly better performance, efficiency, and scalability across modern computing environments.
AGENDA:
Thursday November 13, 2025
11:30 AM: Networking, Pizza & Drinks
Noon — 1 pm: Seminar
Please register on Eventbrite before 9:30 AM on Thursday November 13, 2025
$4 IEEE members $6 non IEEE members
(discounts for unemployed and students )
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Co-sponsored by: 636940-Santa Clara Valley Section Chapter,EMB18
Bldg: ==> Use corner entrance: Kifer Road / San Lucar Court ==> Do not enter at main entrance on Kifer Road, EAG Labs, 810 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California, California, United States, 95051

AI-Enhanced Multimodal Approaches for Electronics Metrology and Failure Analysis
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/498529
The rapid growth of 3D advanced packaging introduces new challenges in inspection and failure analysis, where complex structures such as microbumps, redistribution layers (RDLs), and through-silicon vias (TSVs) demand reliable non-destructive testing (NDT). Conventional approaches, including Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) and X-ray imaging, are limited by noise, resolution, and defect visibility, creating barriers for reproducible and scalable analysis. To address these challenges, our work advances an AI-powered multimodal inspection framework that couples physics-informed machine learning with structured data infrastructure. A Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) approach enhances SAM imaging by embedding acoustic wave physics into reconstructions, producing higher-fidelity images validated through structural similarity and physical accuracy metrics. Complementing this, multimodal data fusion across SAM, X-ray laminography, optical microscopy, and CT establishes richer defect detection and cross-validation. Central to this effort is the creation of multimodality benchmark datasets built on standardized acquisition protocols, structured metadata schemas, and annotation pipelines. These datasets provide not only a foundation for AI model training but also enable reproducibility, traceability, and interoperability across future programs.
Speaker(s): Navid Asadi,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/498529

EMC for Missiles
2025-11-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/508800
This virtual meeting can accommodate up to 100 attendees.
While military systems in general have to operate in tough electromagnetic environments, missile programs require special attention and considerations from an EMI/EMC perspective. From environments to requirements to best practices, this presentation will discuss key focuses of EMI/EMC engineering in relation to missile programs and systems and how best to achieve success.
Speaker(s): Flynn Lawrence, Flynn Lawrence
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/508800

Towards Agentic Intelligence: Architectures for Multi-Agent AI Systems
2025-11-15 | Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA., Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA, United States
Building on the tremendous response to Dhanashree Lele’s ACM talk on Multi-Agent Architectures for Enterprise AI, this 2-day, research-caliber, hands-on workshop is designed to advance the state of practice in Agentic AI system design, evaluation, and optimization.
This workshop will guide participants through theory-to-deployment workflows for constructing next-generation multi-agent frameworks, benchmarking agentic behaviors, and applying compute-efficient orchestration strategies. The curriculum draws heavily from recent breakthroughs presented at NeurIPS, ICLR, and KDD, grounding hands-on engineering in rigorous scientific principles and reproducible experimentation.
By bridging academic research and production-grade engineering, this workshop is ideal for applied researchers, industry practitioners, graduate students, and technical leaders seeking to design reliable, interpretable, and high-performance LLM-based agentic systems.
Learning Format and Structure
This intensive two-day workshop follows a progressive “build-as-you-learn” methodology. Each module introduces core research concepts followed by guided implementation in Jupyter/Google Colab, enabling participants to translate theory directly into working systems.
📅 Day 1 — Architecting Multi-Agent Systems
4 hands-on labs focused on:

Building multi-agentic systems/use-cases from first principles
Exploring agent tools, MCP operability, and orchestration strategies
Converting agentic prototypes into robust, production-ready cognitive pipelines
Implementing coordination, planning, and tool-use protocols across agents

📅 Day 2 — Deep Dive: Research Frontiers and Reproduction

Analytical walkthroughs of seminal and frontier papers in Agentic AI from NeurIPS, ICLR, and KDD
Structured methodology for paper-to-prototype translation: reproducing cutting-edge research through practical labs
Discussions on evaluation benchmarks, alignment frameworks, and emergent behavior analysis
Roadmapping techniques for embedding research-grade systems into real-world enterprise use cases

Key Outcomes
Theoretical Foundations:Understand the mathematical and algorithmic underpinnings of multi-agent LLM architectures, orchestration, and alignment.
Hands-On Mastery:Gain practical experience in building agentic systems from scratch, configuring MCP operability, and scaling prototypes into production-grade deployments.
Evaluation & Governance:Learn to design and apply alignment and evaluation frameworks to ensure robustness, interpretability, and responsible deployment of multi-agent systems.
Practical Assets:Walk away with fully functional notebooks, baseline reference architectures, curated reading lists, and reproducible workflows to accelerate implementation in your own organization.
Registration:
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2025 SVEC Open House - "New Pathways to Improve Healthcare"
2025-11-18 17:30 - 20:30 | Eurofins/EAG, 810 Kifer Rd., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, United States
Silicon Valley Engineering Council’s annual Open House features networking with refreshments and a Biotech panel discussion, including engineering’s role in healthcare futures.

The population in the United States and many Western countries is aging. The cost for developing and using healthcare is rising so much that one wonders if it is sustainable. New ways of thinking are needed for development. Engineers and scientists play a critical role in these fields. Learn from these biotech leaders how their companies are charting new pathways to improve health and healthcare in the future.

SPEAKERS
Christin Glorioso, CEO & Co-Founder, NeuroAge Therapeutics
Christin Glorioso, MD, Ph.D., is the CEO and Cofounder of NeuroAge Therapeutics and the Founder and Executive Director of Longevity Global. She is an Epidemiologist, Physician-Scientist, and Serial Entrepreneur with expertise in Neuroscience, AI, and Computational Modeling.

Lesley Telford, QA Manager, TauTona Group
Lesley Telford has focused her career on engineering in the healthcare field. Beginning at Abbott Vascular, after earning a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, she joined TauTona Group in Redwood City over eight years ago. She is currently the Quality Assurance Manager for this biotech incubator. Telford is an active member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), serving as a leader both locally and internationally, and was recognized by SWE as an Outstanding Collegiate Member in 2010.

DATE: November 8, 2025 – 5:30 – 8:30PM

AGENDA
5:30 – 6:45 Networking & Snacking
6:45 – 7:00 Introductions of SVEC
7:00 – 8:30 Panel

LOCATION: Eurofins EAG – 810 Kiefer Rd., Sunnyvale

The Open House event is offers a great opportunity to recognize our member organizations and promote their programs and events, This event features the speakers panel and offers refreshments with networking time for attendees to meet other Silicon Valley engineers.

REGISTRATION: luma.com/SVECOpenHouse

Talk - Systems with Intent: Designing Agentic AI for Financial Decisioning
2025-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/508173
Hosted via Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/pqw-trcy-xpg
The financial industry is entering a new phase of intelligence—one where AI systems are no longer just analytical tools but autonomous collaborators capable of interpreting goals, reasoning over complex data, and taking context-aware actions. This talk explores the emergence of agentic AI systems in finance—AI architectures designed with intent, memory, and decision agency at their core.
We’ll examine how these systems differ from traditional automation by introducing the concept of goal-driven autonomy: agents that plan, execute, and self-reflect across dynamic financial environments. Drawing from real-world applications such as loan underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and compliance intelligence, the session will unpack how planners, executors, and reflectors interact within an agentic loop to make transparent, auditable decisions.
The discussion will also highlight enabling technologies—large language models as reasoning engines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG+) for contextual grounding, and knowledge graphs for structured memory—and how they converge to form adaptive decision frameworks. Finally, we’ll address the critical dimensions of safety, alignment, and regulatory oversight required to operationalize agentic AI responsibly in financial ecosystems.
Participants will gain a systems-level understanding of how to engineer intent into AI, design autonomous yet trustworthy financial agents, and prepare for a future where decision-making is increasingly shared between humans and intelligent systems.
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Speaker(s): Dhivya Nagasubramanian
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/508173

Stability & Biasing in mmWave GaAs/GaN PAs: Challenges and Solutions
2025-11-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Room: 4021, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95054, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/505939
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) power amplifiers (PAs) are critical building blocks in next-generation radar, satellite, defense, and 6G communication systems, where output power, bandwidth, and efficiency must be achieved under stringent size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints. Among the enabling technologies, Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) continue to dominate due to their complementary strengths in linearity, noise performance, and high-power density.
This talk will focus on design considerations unique to mmWave GaAs and GaN PAs, with particular emphasis on stability and biasing challenges at frequencies above 20 GHz. Unlike lower microwave designs, mmWave PAs are highly susceptible to low-frequency oscillations, odd-mode instabilities, and bias-induced resonances. To mitigate these, stability networks—ranging from RC shunt loading and resistive feedback to series loading and quarter-wave stabilization—must be co-optimized with matching and biasing schemes. Special attention will be given to the integration of stability networks with bias networks, where parasitics from bias chokes, decoupling capacitors, and high-impedance bias lines can introduce additional poles/zeros in the response, affecting both gain flatness and unconditional stability.
The presentation will review practical approaches to stabilizing mmWave PAs without compromising efficiency or bandwidth, including the use of lossy transmission lines, broadband bias tees, and RC filtering strategies tailored for GaAs vs. GaN processes. Case studies will illustrate how bias network design impacts stability margins and overall PA performance, and how distributed versus lumped stabilization choices evolve with frequency. The session will conclude with a discussion of packaging and integration considerations, where bondwire inductances, via transitions, and LTCC/SiP bias routing play a defining role in amplifier stability at mmWave frequencies.
Speaker(s): Asmita Dani,
Room: 4021, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95054, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/505939

Translational Multimodal Bioelectronics: From Biosymbiotic Devices to Clinically Integrated Digital Health
2025-11-19 18:50 - 20:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/515108
Abstract: Advances in soft materials, low-power circuits, and wireless energy harvesting now allow imperceptible, long-lived bioelectronic systems that are practical beyond the lab bench. This talk presents translational pathways for multimodal bioelectronics that bridge engineering innovation with clinical impact. We highlight epidermal and implantable platforms that acquire high-fidelity biosignals—EEG/IMU for neonatal seizure risk and sleep, ECG–SCG–PCG for cardiopulmonary coordination, and oral ISFET-based pH sensors for chemo- physiological context—and describe the materials, packaging, and system architectures that enable stable, week-scale wear. Beyond device physics, we emphasize translation: firmware that guarantees sub-10 ms synchronization across channels, analytics pipelines that integrate signal quality indices with explainable ML models, and HIPAA-compliant clinician dashboards that transform continuous raw streams into actionable insights. Case studies from NICU deployments and adult cohorts illustrate how biosymbiotic devices can support seizure detection, brain–heart dysregulation screening, and personalized therapy planning. By uniting materials, systems, and AI with real clinical use, these efforts outline a roadmap for multimodal digital healthcare that is both technically rigorous and translatable to patient care.
References: PNAS June 2025 122 (23) e2501220122; Nature Medicine (under review); Nature BME (under submission)
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Speaker(s): Assist. Prof. Yayun Du
Agenda:
6:50 – 7 PM: Registration
7-8 PM: Talk and Q&A
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/515108

IEEE Symposium on Reliability for Electronics and Photonics Packaging
2025-11-20 07:30 - 2025-11-21 17:00 | Milpitas, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/495693
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This symposium will focus on quantified reliability, accelerated testing and probabilistic assessments of the useful lifetime of electronic, photonic, MEMS and MOEMS materials, assemblies, packages and systems in electronics and photonics packaging. This includes failure modes, mechanisms, testing schemes, accelerated testing, stress levels, and environmental stresses.
Visit our website for details, for our Advance Program, and to register. https://attend.ieee.org/repp.
Milpitas, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/495693

Modernizing Power System Design with IEC 61850: Breaking Free from Hardware Constraints
2025-11-20 17:30 - 20:30 | Zio Fraedo’s, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523
The power industry is under pressure to rapidly expand infrastructure to meet growing demands from both consumers and producers. But sticking to traditional design and construction methods may no longer be enough. One of the biggest bottlenecks? Hardware dependencies—like waiting on control wiring or specific components—that delay commissioning and inflate project timelines.
This presentation explores how embracing IEC 61850, a globally recognized standard for power system communication and configuration, can unlock new efficiencies. By shifting more functionality into software and adopting a standardized, vendor-neutral approach, engineers can accelerate deployment, improve system quality, and simplify integration.
We will demystify the IEC 61850 data model and show how it builds intuitive, scalable protection and control systems. You will learn how it reduces vendor lock-in, streamlines troubleshooting, and supports a more agile design process. Real-world case studies will highlight successful implementations, and we will share a practical roadmap to help you begin your journey toward a fully digitized power system.
Speaker(s): Darren De Ronde,
Agenda:
No-host social at 5:30pm
Presentation at 6:00pm
Dinner at 7:00pm
Presentation continues at 7:45pm
Adjourn by 8:30pm
Zio Fraedo’s, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523

High Performance Inferencing for LLMs
2025-12-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/516797
Inferencing has become ubiquitous across cloud, regional, edge, and device environments, powering a wide spectrum of AI use cases spanning vision, language, and traditional machine learning applications. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs), initially developed for natural language tasks, have expanded to multimodal applications including vision speech, reasoning and planning each demanding distinct service-level objectives (SLOs). Achieving high-performance inferencing for such diverse workloads requires both model-level and system-level optimizations.
This talk focuses on system-level optimization techniques that maximize token throughput , achieve user experience metrics and inference service-provider efficiency. We review several recent innovations including KV caching, Paged/Flash/Radix Attention, Speculative Decoding, P/D Disaggregation, KV Routing and Parallelism, and explain how these mechanisms enhance performance by reducing latency, memory footprint, and compute overhead. These techniques are implemented in leading open-source inference frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, Hugging Face TGI, and NVIDIA’s TensorRT-llm, which form the backbone of large-scale public and private LLM serving platforms.
Attendees will gain a practical understanding of the challenges in delivering scalable, low-latency LLM inference, and of the architectural and algorithmic innovations driving next-generation high-performance inference systems.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/516797

Characterization and Application of a New Chip-Level Air Pump
2025-12-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/500418
[]Trends in consumer goods are leaning towards thinner, more compact products with higher performance than their predecessors. Today’s consumer wants lightweight, portable, battery-operated gear that is powerful enough to satisfy their needs for speed and ease of use. One of the biggest challenges facing product design is thermal management. Case temperature limits for products that come in contact with user’s skin place constraints on internal power dissipation and increase the need for improved thermal management. With the introduction of locally processed AI and higher compact portable device processing loads thermal issues are critical for avoiding throttling.
µCooling: A new device has been invented that changes the way thermal engineers are approaching system cooling design. µCooling is a new concept in air movers. It is small, and thin and is a complete departure from rotating mass fans. This MEMS-based invention can move air through very small spaces, used directly on a chip or package, placed remotely through tiny ducts, or mounted outside of a product. In fact, the versatility of µCooling changes the way we can manage heat at the package, SoC, or bare-chip level. This talk will introduce µCooling, a MEMS-based, all-silicon, micro-sized air pump. The device will be described in terms of how it works, performance characteristics, and application examples.
Speaker(s): Tom Tarter,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/500418

Navigating your Career: Lessons Learned and Success Strategies
2025-12-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Room: 1308, Bldg: SCDI, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/513222
Careers don’t always follow a straight line — and that’s a good thing! In this talk, I’ll share lessons learned from my own journey and from others who’ve navigated career twists, pauses, and pivots. You’ll hear practical strategies for building confidence, staying current, and navigating transitions at every career stage. We’ll look at how to recognize, build, and communicate your value, how to adapt to emerging technologies and new work cultures, and how to re-enter the workforce after time away. Whether you’re early in your career, returning after a pause, or seeking your next chapter, you’ll leave with practical strategies and encouragement to move forward with clarity and confidence.
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Parking info:
(1) There are some 2-hour and some 4-hour parking spaces on Benton / Sherman and Franklin streets.
(2) There are a number of 2-hour parking spaces next to Bank of America / Starbucks and they are usually not crowded on weeknights. You have to walk across El-Camino traffic light pedestrian crossing. If you get there at 6:20 PM you can park until 8:20PM.
(3) Enter at the door of the Sobrato building colored in YELLOW.
Speaker(s): , Jill Gostin
Room: 1308, Bldg: SCDI, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/513222

Size Really Does Matter: Biological Nanoparticles Are Changing Biomedicine
2025-12-09 19:00 - 21:00 | 925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/514921
This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either.
The holy grail of medical diagnostics is a test that is accurate, sensitive, non-invasive, and inexpensive. For solid tumors such as pancreatic cancer and for many neurological diseases, current diagnostics come too little, too late.
An exciting direction of research in this field relates to exosomes, tiny biological nanoparticles around 100 nm in size. There are trillions of them in our body, carrying a massive amount of valuable information about the health—or disorder—of our organs. They are, however, so small that they had eluded detection until quite recently.
In this talk, Dr. Giacomo Vacca will discuss the challenges, and the promise, of exosomes in biomedical diagnostics. He will show how their abundance is a fantastic opportunity to use them as biomarkers—if you can detect them. As the attention of both technologists and researchers has focused on them, new tools have emerged, enabling new scientific findings—and the tantalizing possibility of much more powerful biomedical diagnostics.
Speaker(s): Giacomo Vacca
925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/514921

AI for Thermal Management of Electronic Systems: A Pathway to Digital Twins
2025-12-11 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/504510
[]The rapid rise in power density and complexity of electronic systems has made thermal management a critical challenge for ensuring reliability, performance, and sustainability. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative opportunities to address this challenge by enabling data-driven modeling, optimization, and predictive control of cooling systems. By integrating AI with experimental and physics-based approaches, adaptive models can be developed to capture transient thermal behaviors, and optimize system-level energy efficiency. This forms the foundation for digital twins, virtual replicas that continuously interact with their physical counterparts to provide system specific real-time monitoring, and data driven decision support. In this talk, I will present recent and ongoing research activities at ES2 Binghamton on AI-enabled thermal management design, with emphasis on cooling solutions for high-power chips in data centers. I will further highlight how these developments serve as a pathway towards creating digital twins, dynamic virtual replicas that integrate real-time data, physics, and AI to enable system-level monitoring, prediction, and optimization. Together, these advancements pave the way for reliable, energy-efficient, and sustainable electronic systems.
Speaker(s): Srikanth Rangarajan,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/504510
